I was just at my local farmers' market. It's nice, a bunch of neat little stacks of produce for a small community. It is not like this in China, there are huge mounds of everything for a lot of people. These markets are like a fiesta, everybody is in town, selling their produce, buying what they don't produce and probably slurp some noodles at lunch time, buy some fabric and then go home to the farms. It is so wonderful to see, the abundance, there shouldn't be any hunger here. You hear of hunger in Africa and elsewhere and you wonder why they can't be like China. These people work so hard, they are always working, there is no food aid or social services. If you don't work, you don't eat. Period, end of story!
Mangoes.
Candy
Peanuts
Tea
Pu'er tea from Yunnan, this was what I brought home.
More peanuts
Chinese dates
Chrysanthemum tea
Pears
More flower tea
Spices
Plums
Oranges
Apples
Peaches
Watermelons
Mung bean tofu
Mushrooms
Bitter melon
Pumpkins
Tofu
Pickles
Lotus root
Radishes
Potatoes
Soya bean
Bamboo shoots
Plums
Mangosteens. I haven't seen these since I left Malaysia. We ate these when we were growing up, they're so sweet and good. I had a great day that first Sunday that I arrived. I would go to a little village, another market, back to the city to a temple and the great city park where the whole town seem to have gathered.
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